From Sep. 6th to 7th, Yang Dongqi, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Shandong Province, led a 14-member law enforcement inspection team to inspect the implementation of the Law of the PRC on Protection of Disabled Persons and the Measures of Shandong Province for Implementing the Law of the PRC on Protection of Disabled Persons in Yantai City.
Yang Dongqi leads a delegation to learn about the history of BMU.
Che Xianli gave the guests a detailed account of the history, discipline and specialty characteristics, the Two Advantageous and Two Characteristic Specialties and the higher education for the disabled against the exhibition boards in the lobby on the first floor of the National Special Education Demonstration Park of BMU. Having learned about BMU's reform and development in recent years, as well as its achievements and characteristics in higher education for the disabled, Yang Dongqi fully affirmed and spoke highly of the university's pioneering spirit and leading role in higher education for the disabled.
Yang Dongqi leads a delegation to inspect the Learning Resource Center.
During the investigation, Yang Dongqi inspected the Learning Resource Center, Massage Training Room, Sensory Integration Room, Smart Classroom, 3D Printing Oral Design Room and Speech Lab, and other experiment and teaching platforms of the School of Special Education and listened to relevant reports. He expressed satisfaction with the modern facilities, such as the barrier-free library and practice and training base, and the general availability of intelligent devices, such as sound and light indicators, barrier-free directions, precise positioning, and one-click for help, found on campus. He noted that BMU has developed an education mode summarized as integration of people with and without disability, and combination of education and health care which accommodates the needs of students with disability for care and education, a real practice of the university's motto of benevolent and skillful, and effective exploration of the high-quality development of the well-being of the disabled people.
Yang Dongqi talks kindly with students.
Yang Dongqi talked kindly with students with disability to learn about their curriculum, hobbies, etc. and was moved by their unremitting spirit of self-improvement. He encouraged the students to make the best of the conditions provided by the university, work hard and acquire skills for future careers quickly. He said, A single spark can start a prairie fire. Medicine is a great cause, and so is education for the disabled. Binzhou Medical University has worked hard and persevered in this cause for 37 years. He hoped Binzhou Medical University could seize opportunities and actively explore new practices in discipline development, education, and other works for better quality development.
Che Xianli noted that the university is following its positioning and direction, guiding values and system innovation, promoting higher education for the disabled to higher quality and new starting points, striving to contribute more to the cause of the disabled in Shandong and the whole country, and producing better results by focusing on the goal of cultivating qualified personnel with combined medicine, education and health care knowledge and making the best of the university's advantages and characteristics.
In 1985, BMU became the first higher education institution to offer special education programs by establishing the Department of Clinical Medicine (Department II of Medicine). This was a milestone event in the history of education for the disabled in China. BMU began to enroll China's first visually impaired students in undergraduate medical programs in 2012. BMU was approved a national special education demonstration park and received the first group of students majoring in special education and listening and speech rehabilitation in 2013. BMU enrolled students with hearing impairment in 2018... In the past 37 years, more than 1,500 disabled students have completed their studies at BMU and started new lives in society. BMU has developed an innovative model of special education summarized as combination of student with and without disability, integration of education and health care, and unity of learning and application, which has become a mainstream education model in this field. China Disabled Persons' Federation and the Shandong Provincial Government have incorporated the proposals from BMU on the education of disabled medical students into five-year development plans and special education promotion plans. In 2021, BMU received the special prize of Teaching Achievement Awards of Shandong Province for its study Innovation and Development of Talent Development System for Medical Students with Disabilities. In the same year, BMU's study Innovation and Practice of Talent Development System with Combined “Medicine, Education and Health Care” Knowledge for Special Education Specialty against the Background of New Liberal Arts was included among the first batch of Research and Reform Practice Projects of New Liberal Arts in China as the first project from medical universities in Shandong Province.
SOURCE: News Center
BY: Chang Jing
